The shape of the eye : Down syndrome, family, and the stories we inherit / George Estreich ; afterword by Marcia Day Childress.
- Estreich, George.
- Date:
- [2011], ©2011
- Books
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Description
Writer George Estreich describes how raising a child with Down syndrome impacted everything else in his life, including his approach to writing and the way he now perceives other events in his own life and in the lives of his family members.
Publication/Creation
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Physical description
xiii, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents
Arrival -- A child first -- Faultline -- Border -- This is eating -- Echo -- In the ICU -- Medicine is communication -- The mayor of Hidden Valley -- At home -- A complex sweetness -- Writers and families -- The labyrinth of normal -- Tragedy and expectation -- John Langdon Down -- Engineering -- Increments and fates -- Tokyo, 1945.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineSTP.6.AA10Open shelves
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- 9780870745676
- 0870745670